succinctly salient @acererak@writing.exchange

the importance of being truthful,
is like a ruler to my hand.

burning pulsing heat
fade, as I tell lies again.

bruises bloom anew on
overly punished skin.

delicious stories painted
while pain and pleasure blend.

my soul is fiery ink used
to write each quivering sin.

I bleed and scream into my work
until the pages grin.

#Poem #Poetry

I met ecstasy at a party.
she was dancing, laughing

flickering strobe lights
painting her face

her body glowing
deep. electric blue. henna

radiation exposure from black lights

music so loud
the pulse overtook my heart.

looking around
the pulse had taken everyone's.

The moon was power here
a cult against the rising of the sun

#poetry

Life is a constant shedding
Threads falling away,
People, memories, dreams.
Until what remains
Just Is

#poem

looking up. seeing all the people
looking down.
cell phones screens glistening
among the waiting passengers.
what world's have you made?
or distraction did you assemble?
I'm not sad, just feeling disconnected.
so I'll look down again and write.
a little world, that someone
might visit and read.

#VerseThurday #grey #poem

when first I saw the island
who's beaches, black sands, shown like
pearls littered among the ocean floor.
moonlight pouring from a vase
lapping tides, purple turquoise
an ocean desperate to keep
what gem of a world it had let escape.

#poem #Poetry

I put the clouds on a clothesline.
let them gently drip.
rainbows form from falling perls.
smokey laundry
crying itself to sleep.
until it's dry again.

#poem #poetry #VerseThurday

within the fireplace,
flames become dancers.
an erratic wildfire,
small self absorbed spirits.
warming and dying and free

#poem #poetry

congratulations on losing control.
it was important that
you exploded.
I feel you finally
hear me.
I love the you that
fights apathy.

#poem #poetry

Lights, were coming from a fireplace
Whispering in a cabin not so far away
I could be there, I knew
In the fire, I could be warmth
Slowly filling the cabin
The people asleep, scared of the dark
My body melting timber
Until the sunrise, my last cry
Seeing them rise, I die

#poem #poetry

today I walked until the sidewalk
fell away to a puddle that
was overtaken by an octopus
who laughed while smoking cigars.
"what have you, come to sail?
the enormously foul creature spoke
but was careful, to not
let tendrals fall out.
I stared, so did it, until our eyes
revealed, blue waters so calm
they grew an ocean. so we swam.
dancing together.

sometimes a walk ends up,
being the best way to make friends.

#VerseThurday #poem